Employees who work more than 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week have the right to receive overtime.
See the values in the table
| Normal Schedule (8 hours a day or 40 hours a week) | Zero |
| Extra hour | 25% |
| Night Hours (10:00 pm to 5:00 am) | 25% |
| Work on a day off (company calendar) | 25% |
| Overtime plus night time | 25% + 25% |
| I work on days off (company calendar) plus night shifts | 25% + 25% |
| Work on a day off (determined by law) | 35% |
| I work on days off (determined by law) plus night shifts | 35% + 25% |
In Japan’s labor law, the days off determined by law are 4 days a month (houtei), I have no definition of days of the week, that is, these 4 days can be on weekends or weekdays. And if the employee works on any of these 4 days, the company must pay an additional 35% (overtime). And there are also days off determined by the company (company calendar), called shoutei.
If the company has a daily working schedule of less than 8 hours per day, that is, 4 hours per day, and there is a need to work two or four more hours, up to the limit of 8 hours per day, the company is not obliged to pay the excess hours as overtime, only if the working day exceeds 8 hours per day.
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